Colletes montanus Morawitz 1876

Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2015, Type specimens of Colletes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3949 (4), pp. 540-554 : 546

Colletes montanus Morawitz 1876

( Fig. 27 a–e)

Colletes montana Morawitz 1876: 262 –263. Type locality: “Iskander-Kul’ Lake, Anzobskii Pass, Alai” ( Uzbekistan, Tajikistan).

Types. Lectotype, ♂, designated here // gold circle // “Ягнобъ” [Yagnob River near Anzobskii Pass, Tajikistan] // montanus F. Mor. Typ. , handwritten by F. Morawitz // lectotype Colletes montana Morawitz 1876 design. Proshchalykin & Kuhlmann 2015, typewritten red label, examined [ZISP].

Current status. A junior subjective synonym of Colletes floralis Eversmann 1852 . Synonymized by Blüthgen 1930a: 147.

Remark. The species was described from the specimens of both sexes collected in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. There is only one specimen in ZISP, male, which corresponds to the original description of Morawitz. This specimen is designated here as a lectotype of Colletes montanus . The lectotype is conspecific with Colletes floralis Eversmann 1852 .

Figures

FIGURE 27. Colletes montanus Morawitz, lectotype, ♂. a—lateral habitus; b—dorsal habitus; c—head; d—S 7; e—labels.